Adelaide Coffee Roasters By Suburb
Where to find great coffee roasters across Adelaide
A guide to independent South Australian roasters by area, from Findon's Grange Road to the Fleurieu, sorted by where they actually are.
Short answer, who is where
- West (Findon, Hindmarsh, Torrensville), Altura, Coffee in Common, Elementary
- Inner East and North East (Glynde, Windsor Gardens), 1645, Monastery
- North (Pooraka), Charlie Black
- CBD, My Kingdom For A Horse
- South and South West (Warradale, Blackwood), Bobby's, b3
- Hills and Fleurieu (Adelaide Hills, McLaren Vale), Vice, Dawn Patrol
- Adelaide-wide, Kindred, Peninsula, Two Fish, Elusive
You do not have to live near any of them. Most roast to order and ship statewide, and an Allways subscription rotates through them for you.
Most "best coffee in Adelaide" lists throw twenty names at you in no particular order and leave you to work out which ones are anywhere near you. This one is sorted by area instead, so if you are in the western suburbs, or up in the Hills, or stuck in the CBD, you can find the roasters on your doorstep first.
Every roaster here is independent, based in South Australia, and in the Allways rotation. If you want the full write-up on each one, the history, the sourcing, what they are known for, the complete Adelaide roasters guide covers all fifteen in depth. This is the map version.
Western Suburbs
FINDON · HINDMARSH · TORRENSVILLE
The Grange Road corridor is as close as Adelaide gets to a roasting strip. If you are out west, these three are the easiest specialty coffee to reach.
Altura Coffee
253 Grange Rd, Findon
The most established name on this list. They started in Beverley in 1999 and now roast on Grange Road, where the roastery cafe lets you watch the roast through glass while you drink a flat white. Two generations, family-owned, and their own line for it is the best summary anyone could write: "We keep it in house, all under one roastery roof." Read the Altura profile →
Coffee in Common
Bacon St, Hindmarsh
A small-batch roastery and cafe in a sprawling industrial warehouse. They describe themselves in about as few words as a business can manage: "we're an adelaide, south australian based roastery." Rotating single origins alongside house blends. Read the Coffee in Common profile →
Elementary Coffee
Jervois St, Torrensville, and Young St, Adelaide
Brad and Carly, more than twenty years in Australian coffee between them, running a roastery, a wholesale business and a couple of cafes. Small batch, strict roast profiles, weekly cuppings. The house blend is named after the street the roastery sits on, which is either a failure of imagination or the most honest naming convention in Adelaide coffee. Read the Elementary profile →
Inner East and North East
GLYNDE · WINDSOR GARDENS
Just east and north east of the city, two roasters with very different approaches to the same job.
1645 Coffee Roasters
30 Sunbeam Rd, Glynde
A family-run specialty roasting business, and about as local as it gets. Blends alongside single origins, roasted to extract well on home espresso machines. The reliable pick if you do not want to fuss with your grinder. Read the 1645 profile →
Monastery Coffee
Windsor Gardens
Roasting since 2013 and built around traceability. In January 2018 the Australian Specialty Coffee Association named Adam Marley of Monastery Australia's top-ranked roaster. Filter-forward, and about as serious as sourcing gets short of flying to origin yourself. Read the Monastery profile →
Northern Suburbs
POORAKA
Charlie Black Coffee Co.
Pooraka
The long way round. They were distributing coffee from home back in the early 1990s, then spent thirty-odd years inside a multinational before coming back out to do it properly on their own terms. They also run Roaming Charlie event carts, which is a good sign in a roaster. Doing the work rather than talking about it. Read the Charlie Black profile →
Adelaide CBD
CITY
One roaster with a proper city presence you can walk into.
My Kingdom For A Horse
11 Waymouth St · 185 Pirie St · 60 King William St
Founded by Emily Raven and Rachel Mead. Raven brings more than thirty-five years in professional cookery, Mead a Master of Management. Three cafes across the city, the Pirie Street site taking up to sixty guests, plus a separately named sister restaurant. The milk is farm-direct from Tweedvale in the Adelaide Hills, which is the sort of detail most places would not bother with. Read the My Kingdom For A Horse profile →
South and South West
WARRADALE · BLACKWOOD
Two roasters who opened where the people already were, rather than where the foot traffic is.
Bobby's Coffee
43a Addison Rd, Warradale, and 45 Sandison Tce, Glenelg North
Fifty square metres beside the Warradale train line, home since 2022, with a second site off Anzac Highway found in 2024. Their line is "everyday coffee for everyday people", and it is one of the few brand taglines that survives contact with the actual shop. Fifty square metres does not leave room for a design statement. Read the Bobby's profile →
b3 Coffee
Blackwood, roasting at Somerton Park
Ben Laakmann started on Blackwood's main street in 2016 so Hills locals could get good beans without driving into the city. Shana Knowles came on as co-owner in 2018 and the roasting has since moved to a dedicated Somerton Park facility. Blackwood is still a trading cafe, seven days. "Our three core values are coffee, quality and community." Read the b3 profile →
Adelaide Hills and Fleurieu
ADELAIDE HILLS · McLAREN VALE
The Hills and the Fleurieu punch above their weight for coffee.
Vice Coffee Roasters
Adelaide Hills
Female-owned, and they prioritise female producers wherever possible at origin. Since they started, ten per cent of the profits from online sales have gone to charity. Their own line is hard to improve on: "coffee should always be the one vice you never have to apologise for." Read the Vice profile →
Dawn Patrol Coffee
402 Main Rd, McLaren Vale
Roasting since 2014 out of the Fleurieu wine region, where you can taste through the range cellar-door style. The cafe at the roastery is run by Neighbours Crumpets, so it is worth arriving hungry. Free domestic shipping and dispatch inside 48 hours. Read the Dawn Patrol profile →
Adelaide-Wide
SOURCING-LED · ONLINE AND WHOLESALE
Four of the best do not hang their identity on a suburb. They are sourcing-led operations you will mostly meet online or through wholesale.
Kindred Coffee
Adelaide
Alex and David, a combined thirty-five years and more between them, started as nomad roasters renting shared space and now run two Probats of their own, a P5 and a P12, plus a Kaffelogic for sample and competition coffees. They store green, roast, pack and dispatch all within the day of roasting. Read the Kindred profile →
Peninsula Coffee
South Australia
A micro roastery focused on clean, expressive coffee and thoughtful sourcing. Their team is rooted in Korea, built by roasters and baristas with more than a decade of work across the United States, Australia and Korea. The brand line is "Bound by the Between". They sell green beans too, which almost nobody at this size does. Read the Peninsula profile →
Two Fish Coffee
Adelaide
Adelaide based, and by their own account they have been roasting, brewing and enjoying coffee for the better part of a decade. The line that matters: "the vast majority of our coffees can be traced back to a single farmer or washing station." Roasted to order weekly. Read the Two Fish profile →
Elusive Coffee
Adelaide, roasting at the Settlement Roasting facility
The newest name here by a distance, founded in September 2024, roasting weekly in small batches out of a shared facility. You will find them at the Adelaide Hills Farmers Market in Mount Barker, Stirling Laneways and Gilles at the Grounds. They put it as offering "love and hope to those in need through the proceeds of a great cup of coffee". Read the Elusive profile →
The honest part
Sorting by suburb is useful right up until it is not. Here is the thing worth being straight about: for drinking great coffee at home, where a roaster is barely matters. Almost every roaster on this list roasts to order and ships across Australia, so a roaster in the Hills reaches your kitchen in the western suburbs in a day or two, just as fresh as one down the road.
Proximity matters if you want to visit. Sit in the cafe, watch a roast, taste before you buy. For that, by all means start with the roasters nearest you. But if your goal is simply the best coffee in your cup on a Tuesday morning, the more useful sort is not by suburb at all. It is by what you like to drink and how you brew it.
Which is the honest case for a rotating subscription over picking one local roaster. You are not betting your whole coffee year on whichever roastery happens to be closest to your house. You get the western suburbs roaster one fortnight and the Hills one the next, and you find out what you actually like.
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